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From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Date: 20030509
Author:Dennis LythgoeDeseret News staff writer
'Understanding Emerson'
By Kenneth S. Sacks
Princeton, $29.95.
Many institutions are preparing to celebrate the bicentennial of Ralph Waldo Emerson's birth on May 25, 2003. (That's the date this book will be available.) That means we will have a flood of new books examining his life and mind. This one, by a history professor from Brown University, focuses mainly on Emersonian contemporary correspondence and diaries, much of it not previously examined.
Sacks spends a good deal of time on what he considers Emerson's defining moment, his speech, "The American Scholar," in which he not only spoke ...
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